Clinical Practice Guidelines

New in 2014: Management of Refractory Symptoms at the End of Life and the Use of Palliative Sedation, Advanced Cancer Care, Newly Diagnosed and Relapsed Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Bone Health in Cancer Patients.

Pocket Guidelines & Mobile App

Download the new version of our App with the latest Pocket Guidelines for professionals and Guides for Patients

EGFRI-Related Skin Toxicity

Information, treatment algorithms and educational materials for healthcare professionals and patients about skin problems that may occur when being treated with anti-EGFR drugs

Multikinase Inhibitor Related Skin Toxicity

Information, treatment algorithms and educational materials for healthcare professionals and patients relating to the management of dermatological toxicities in patients treated with multikinase inhibitors.

Practice Tools

ESMO has developed a set of organ-specific tools designed to assist oncologists in their daily practice.

Handbooks

ESMO members: the last 4 ESMO Handbooks are now available for browsing online to allow you to easily access the sections most relevant to you.

Essentials for Clinicians

A simplified yet comprehensive overview on oncological malignancies, their biology, diagnosis, staging, treatment and follow-up, which are necessary for basic patient treatment

ESMO Spotlights

Discover the ESMO Spotlights: concise overviews of the facts that have made an impact in cancer research and practice in the past year.

Glossary of Molecular Biology

ESMO members: Browse through the ESMO Glossary in Molecular Biology of Cancer and Molecular Techniques online

User’s Manual for Oncology Clinicians

Discover the User's Manual for Oncology Clinicians: “Clinician’s notes” for each of the 16 chapters of the patient guide.

Annals of Oncology

You may now search Annals of Oncology, our official journal, directly from OncologyPRO! Please sign in to benefit from direct access to articles.

Cancer in Medical Journals

Collection of links to the latest cancer related articles in top medical journals: Annals of Oncology, The Lancet, JAMA, NEJM, BMJ and Nature Medicine

Links to Cancer Journals

Here, ESMO members can gain direct access to journals available to them for free (Annals of Oncology, Nature Reviews Cancer, Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, and British Journal of Cancer). You can also find links to interesting journals in the fields of Medical Oncology, Haematology and Biomarkers.

ESMO Handbooks

ESMO Handbooks are comprehensive guides which provide concise, first-hand advice on specific treatment strategies in the medical oncology field. They are all available as downloadable PDFs and, since 2011, available for browsing online for ESMO members.

The aim of this publication is to provide key information in the form of a comprehensive and well-arranged handbook that will help physicians gain better understanding of the issues surrounding patient rehabilitation.

This is a user-friendly handbook, designed for young medical oncologists, where they can access the essential information they need for providing the treatment which could have the highest chance of being effective and tolerable.

The treatment of any patient, in particular seniors, requires a careful evaluation of the person who is in need of such treatment. This handbook focuses on the delicate decision-making process, which should lead to the best therapy, adapted not only to the disease but also to the person who suffers from it

This Handbook is a rare attempt to make an appraisal of where we are in the field of cancer diagnosis and treatment evaluation, by focusing on some key issues of the clinical method of medical oncologists.

Oncologists have the potential to be a large and important group of activists for cancer prevention measures, and faced with the failure of cancer prevention have more incentives than many others to see them implemented.

The Handbook on Advanced Cancer Care provides useful definitions and surveys of treatment principles along with guidelines for diagnostic procedures and therapies for various conditions associated with advanced cancer and its treatment.